Do you think Immoral Females brought on the Comments by Don Imus?

Question

No doubt about it, Don Imus was truly dumb and insensitive in what he said about the Ruteger's Basketball team..HOWEVER the word *Ho* which is used in today's youth culture is not viewed as a *Big Deal*

What do you think is the cause of that? Are women to blame for how they are viewed? Girls Gone Wild Videos, Victoria Secret TV Programs, My Space with women having no problem revealing photos of themselves, What makes women think they deserve any respect when they act like that?

Do you think women that deserve respect are being lumped in with the women who truly do act like B**es and *H**s?

Answer 1

Why does a women enjoying her sexuality not deserve respect? That is the type of thinking that results in rape victims being blamed for the rape because of the way they dressed.

Answer 2

No I do not- would you ask this question if a woman was raped physically? I hope not- NO matter what one person does it does not justify what Don Imus did. These women were 'raped emotionally' and no one has the right to do that.
When you ask a question like this , you are judging something you do not even know to be true anyway. In a way, you are saying what Imus did was ok. Sorry but it wasn't.

Answer 3

No, I don't think the women brought it on themselves. I mean unless Imus knew all of the women personally, he really was making generalizing, sweeping comments. I guess this is the sort of thing that happens when you generalize.

Answer 4

I don't really think parading about in ones underwear can be considered "immoral", and the respect given to women should not be based on how many of us do so. I fail to see why anyone should refuse to be respectful to another person, even if they disagree with how they flaunt themselves in a way our society considers inappropriate. I refuse to be blamed for the sexism in our society. I am not at fault, and if anything, cultural values based on a male-dominated society are.

Answer 5

Are these words part of Imus' vernacular...if so, he is a racist bigot...if not, he thought about it ,and wanted to use them for shock value...which is very stupid and insensitive, and now he is paying the price.

Hopefully, by black women standing up to Imus, they will also start to stand up to the rap artists, etc...and demand that enough is enough of the disrespecting...

Answer 6

Imus never needed an excuse to voice abusive and unjustified criticisms of others. He appears to lack the moral base that would enable him to be sufficiently objective to require any factual base for his comments. His venue, shock journalism, is morally bankrupt at best, and deserves condemnation.

Answer 7

What do revealing photos have to do with prostitution?

There is nothing wrong with the female body that requires that it be hidden. Assuming that a woman who exposes a little skin is promiscuous it a christian perversion. Janet Jackson's nipple did no more to destroy society than Justin Timberlake's would have.

Furthermore, the demeaning of women, the idea that women are chattel to be traded and held by men, has it's roots in the bible. Christians are responsible for making it acceptable to treat women as second class citizens whose only role it to be a man's helper.

Answer 8

Women in general do NOT act like that.

So I'd appreciate it if you didn't lump us all together as much as you have.

People gain respect based on their own merits. People respect me for who I am, not some general category I belong to.

Answer 9

No, the comments were brought on because Imus is an idiot.

Answer 10

i think that the don imus thing is way out of porportion. ok have you lisened to rap( i love rap by the way) but lots of songs make fun of women and say how they are hoes. but you dont see anybody making fun of them.